The next SVG Europe Women event, hosted by Sky Sports and Sky Production Services, is being held on the evening of Thursday 18 July at Sky Studios, Isleworth, London, from 4.00pm. SVG Europe is excited to announce an impressive speaker line up that includes Premier League Productions, Telstra, Solent University and Sky Sports, as well […] More
Following the success of the 2017 and 2018 programmes, Timeline has announced the launch of its third graduate engineering development programme for positions commencing in September 2019. Timeline is looking for a group of enthusiastic graduates to train alongside its engineering teams for a variety of roles. The successful candidates will join the Timeline team, […] More
Production of the 2019 US Open, won by the American Gary Woodland, included more than 50 cameras shooting in HDR, almost double the amount used last year. Fox Sports vice president of field operations and engineering Brad Cheney told SVG that the additional 22 cameras helped to not only meet the needs of partners who […] More
Euro Media Group (EMG) has announced the acquisition of Global Production, a major player in the Italian and European outside broadcasting market. Based in Turin, Global Production operates a fleet of three outside broadcast trucks equipped with advanced technology for HD and UHD HDR productions, providing services to some of the world’s leading sports and […] More
Five years ago when Fox Sports announced that it was going to put microphones in the cups on each hole many wondered if it would prove to be a worthwhile innovation worthy of keeping around for year two. Five years later it is an example of a technical innovation that has evolved since year one […] More
ITN Productions is a London-based bespoke production hub producing creative content for the corporate, commercial, broadcast and digital sectors. This division of ITN was an early adopter of Sony’s Ci Media Cloud Platform built on Amazon Web Services platform, and according to Olly Strous, ITN’s head of post-production, that adoption has increased flexibility across all […] More
AI-based automated sports production technology company Pixellot and La Corte, an Argentinian broadcaster and producer, have announced that they will collaborate to produce coverage of the 2019-2020 Argentinian women’s football league together with La Maña SA and television host Jorge Rial. Pixellot technology will enable La Corte to provide live and on-demand coverage of Primera […] More
At the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, UK, virtual reality (VR) gaming has taken eSports broadcasting to a new level as ESL UK and Facebook-owned VR company, Oculus, took the top two VR League Echo Arena teams from Europe and North America to compete live for a $38,700 prize pool and the championship title. It has […] More
BBC Sport’s in-house production team has secured the contract to provide the event staging and TV production element of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) for the next three years. The contract starts this year and ends in 2021, but there is an option, at the BBC’s discretion, to extend it for a […] More
Sky Sport HQ studio in Unterföhring will be the venue on 27 June for the annual Sky Sport Summit in cooperation with SVG Europe, hosted once more by Gert Zimmermann. A record crowd is expected for the annual Munich summit, where the title sponsor for 2019 is Broadcast Solutions and panel sponsors are AJA Video […] More
